The New Dead C. - Patience
 

Anyone heard it yet, its pretty good even more well recorded by Dead C. standards, the first track has some real channel seperation between Morley and Russell...

Still havn't heard it yet. I've been way behind on keeping up with new releases as I'm in my last semester of school. Heard it's great though.

looking forward to it, will pick it up next week if one of the local shops has it.

its excellent i think, though hard to rank among the wealth of other Dead C. releases... i still want to see this band live real bad...real bad.

I'll be seeing them live for the third time in December, God bless ATP

have they moved away from the Future Artists level of total madness?

Yes, their last record Secret Earth was more rock songy

I'll be seeing them live for the third and fourth time in December, God bless ATP



Heard the new one a couple of times and I like it. Agree that it's hard to rank it against their massive back catalogue. First track is a winner for sure. Right now I'd say I like it better than Future Artists and Secret Earth, but I need to absorb it more to be sure.

I agree with you as i think Patience may be closer to being on par to the mid 90's siltbreeze recordings (the whitehouse, tusk) although secret earth is also pretty good, future artists is OK not bad but not great either...i struggle the most with the self titled double disc on language recordings that came out in 2000/01, i remember being really pysched about getting a DC double album, then i heard it... maybe i should listen to it again.

Shit, already a new one? I'm still dissecting Trapdoor Fucking Exit and Harsh 70s Reality.

my opinion about their self-titled changes every time i listen to it

OK, i listened to it again i think i like it now disc 1 is still abit tough, disc 2 i think is better...

these two are great...classics

Have also been listening to Patience. I agree that it is better than Secret Earth and quite possibly their best since The White House and definitely comparable with Repent and Tusk. Could it possibly be one of the albums of the year. Along with the re-issue of Clyma Est Mort we have been spoiled indeed!

you have many hours of pant-shitting happiness ahead of you. And you havent even heard Clyma Est Mort.

Hah, nice, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm going to spin The White House now, that one will come right after.

I bought The White House when it came out in 95', I tell you there was not much else even remotely like it then, but still they waste most of the noise stuff today.

http://blog.flyingnun.co.nz/2010/11/...%A63%E2%80%A6/



With the recent release of The Dead C’s new album ‘Patience’ , we asked guitarist Bruce Russell to put together a podcast, he made up the rest of the rules around what he played, and sent us a track listing on the back of a postcard.

 

Track listing

1. Alastair Galbraith & Graeme Jefferies Timebomb [Xpressway 7”, 1989]
2. The Builders America [no label 7”, 1982]
3. The Riptoids The Devil Paid a Visit [Onset/Offset 7”, 1985]
4. The Swingers Certain Sound [Ripper LP, 1979]
5. Herco Pilots NZ Rec [Rem 7”, 1982]
6. Naked Spots Dance Crescendo/Circle Moon [Sausage LP, 1980]
7. Playthings Coloured [no label 7”, 1981]
8. Life in the Fridge Exists Have You Checked the Children? [Sausage LP, 1980]
9. The Wasp Factory Steel Blue Sky [F-Star 7” 1986]
10. Toerag When the Moon is Strong [Onset/Offset 7”, 1985]
11. Fetus Productions Marvellous [no label LP, 1980]
12. Shoes This High Not Weighting [no label 7”, 1980]
13. George Henderson & Alastair Galbraith Maquarie Island [Turbulence box set, 1991]

WOW -- can't believe I didn't see this thread. PATIENCE is fucking amazing, mindblowing shit. I am a huge Dead C fan. It's hard to choose a favorite; I guess TRAPDOOR FUCKING EXIT is my most listened to one (it also influenced the naming of a great post-hardcore/noise rock band who kinda sound like Drive Like Jehu).

a few years ago i bought a CD by that band and it was so crap i threw it in the bin before i'd even listened to the whole thing.

I just want to say that "Head" is pretty much the best song ever. Thank you for making me have to go get a new pair of pants, Dead C.

I've only heard 1 ep and 1 full length, I know they got some more stuff, but from what I heard, they were awesome noise rock, really complex with a snotty vocalist. Great WEIRD guitar lines, creative as hell. Just great. Not sure about the rest of their stuff, and not sure why they named themselves after a Dead C album but yeah.

Theres a Dead C album called Drive Like Jehu?

and thats not even the best one, you need to get a loyalty card at the pants shop.

I am obsessed with The Dead C at the minute, i cant listen to anything else without thinking "Trapdoor Fucking Exit next, followed by Clyma Est Mort, followed by Eusa Kills"

Nothing else has ever done what the Dead C does to me. Im getting the new album next week, and i cant fucking wait

Not that I'm aware of.

looked like you said there was in your post.
anyway, all things Dead C are good

There's a band called TRAPDOOR FUCKING EXIT, that kinda sound like Drive Like Jehu (long noisey snotty hateful songs with unconventional riffing and structures; TRAPDOOR are a bit more "post punk" instead of Jehu's.. erm.. uh... "PROGRESSIVE NOISE PUNK" -- okay, I don't know what to call them -- but they're one of the few bands who really had that kinda sound.. other bands at the top of my head being Officer May and Icarus Line)

no, there's a shitty swedish hardcore band who named themselves after Trapdoor Fucking Exit, they're about the most generic thing you can imagine
http://www.myspace.com/trapdoorfuckingexit

Wow, generic eh? Reccomend me some more "generic" progressive post-noise rock then, man. I'd like to hear some. Lemme guess, Black Flag, Drive Like Jehu, and Refused are generic too, right? Do you dislike HOT SNAKES, too (probably my favorite rock band of the past decade)? This stuff is brilliant, complex and badass. I hear some Yaphet Kotto in their sound too, now that I think about it.

Here's a better, more informed bio:
Beginning with a lineup of Jens Aker (guitar), Henke Anderson (vocals), Daniel Astgren (drums) and Daniel Fagerström (bass), the band quickly earned a reputation across Scandinavia and around the world, largely due to their unique sound which combined influences as diverse as The Stooges, Black Flag and Drive Like Jehu with occasional touches of psychedelia and neo-prog rock.

Their first, self-titled album was initially released on Swedish label Bridge Records in 2001, but was quickly picked up for a North American release by celebrated punk label No Idea. No Idea infamously promoted the band as featuring NO ex-members of fellow Swedish act Refused and continued to release Trapdoor Fucking Exit material until their final album - Crooked Life/Straight World - in 2005, by which time bass player Fagerström had been replaced by Thomas Hedblom.

Discography:
2005 - Crooked Life/Straight World (LP)
2002 - Be Not Content (LP)
2002 - Devil’s Egg (EP)
2001 - Trapdoor Fucking Exit (LP)

a quick review from INK:

Oh baby! These guys are so ridiculously good, it's almost unfair to all the other bands out there. Trapdoor Fucking Exit are from Sweden, and they rock out in an angular fashion, similar to Drive Like Jehu -- though, TFE are much faster and more aggressive than those guys.

Excellent band. I really reccomend BE NOT CONTENT, it's a cool album -- no idea whatsoever why they're name after a Dead C album, though. Is anyone into the band THE ULTRA DOLPHINS? They're also kinda Jehu-y, but about a thousand times more complex, and have an insane organ player (!). Anyway, if you're into any of those bands, Pitchfork, Hot Snakes, you'd like em definitely. OH, and Fatal Flying Guilloteens -- check that band out asap. Imagine the Jesus Lizard but more unhinged and more TEXAS. Features the most violent and insane guitarist ever, playing some of the weirdest riffs I've ever heard in my life (like, he'll hammer on on a high pitched string, make a harmonic, play 2 power chords real fast, make 3 more harmonic sounds, and then tremolo pick up and down the fretboard... and that's just one riff for one verse of a song. Really inventive and weird).

Anyway, back to Dead C.